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Google: PAC-MAN 30th Anniversary

Google has given its logo a Pac-man Tribute. Google packing a playable Pacman game celebrating the little yellow fella’s 30th anniversary.

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Google has given over its logo in a Pac-man tribute. Head to Google now and you’ll be greeted by a Google doodle packing a playable Pacman game celebrating the little yellow fella’s 30 anniversary.

Let the Google homepage sit for a moment and the Google Pac-man doodle will come to life letting you play the game with your arrow keys. It’s even got the original music.

The Google Pac-man tribute also replaces the I’m Feeling Lucky Button with one marked Insert Coin. Press it and you’ll get a two player version featuring Ms Pac-man.

Google frequently switches up its primary-colored logo in order to celebrate the birthdays and anniversaries of luminaries, pop culture icons, and important innovations (Sesame Street and the barcode have been among the honorees), but the Pacman Google logo is unique in that it is the first playable Google Doodle.

According to Google, the Pacman logo has a total of 256 levels. Users can click the “Insert Coin” button to get the game going, or click it twice to kick-off a two-player game. (See it in action in the video below.) Pacman will be up on Google for a total of 48 hours–from 8AM PT on Friday through Sunday morning. The programmer behind the Pacman Doodle was reportedly the son of a game and pinball technician and used to accompany his father to arcade parlors and help him tinker with the games.